EPIPHONE DOT/STUDIO DOT Question

[AzNjT]

Hey Owners of Epiphone Dot and Dot Studio owners.

Does this Guitar Neck Dive AT ALL?

Does it have even the Slightest Neck Dive ?

I just saw a Video on youtube and even though it isnt a Epiphone im just Concerned~

WATCH @ 35secs,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_lTwAmsJnI

man if i bought that and i come home and Strap it on and Find that it does that? I'd throw it in 1 corner and never touch it again.

SO Dot owners. Does yours? or does it sit like a Les Paul.

 

[subversion]

some neck dive is inevitable- i bought the SG knowing well it would neck-dive but learning to live with it is the other side of adaptaiton.

 

[AzNjT]

The Dive of a SG is fine.. never realized it with my SG standard

but my Explorer made it Very unintersting to play even thought i really liked that guitar~

So as long as its Not terrible like in the video and Not as Suckass as the Explorer and somewhere between an SG And LES PAUL im cool ...

 

[Elias]

I think another important aspect is the strap. If you use those smooth, non-leather nylon material kinda strap, there's not much friction between your body/clothes and the strap, increasing the chance to neck dive. Leather style ones tend to have more grip. That's my personal experience since I'm have a Flying V myself. Your mileage may vary :lol:

 

[AzNjT]

yeah tahts the thing, i dont want it to have to resort to leather straps~

i've owned 2 flying Vs and they both dont do that even with Nylong straps ;P


Anyways~ i
ll be getting my dot tommrrow if its available at sweelee!!

 

[foxblinkhope]

yo man, after you get the dot tell me if the neck dives that much with those nylon/plasticky strap alright! cause im also quite interested in buying a hollowbody guitar.

 

[subversion]

the DOT is not hollow entirely...

 

[AzNjT]

Sold Out!!

 

[FPaulLes]

whatis neck drive?

 

[Godspeed64]

Get an SG.. Put on a strap (no strap locks please)..
Stand up, and don't support your guitar..
It will bloody fall slowly downwards..
If you're unlucky the guitar will fall off.. Happened to me during a performance..
Had to put my leg on my amp and continue playing.. Haha

 

[theunknown]

isit caused by heavy neck and headstock? if not, what is the cause?

 

[Godspeed64]

For an SG, the placing of the strap thingys..
Where you put on the strap I mean..
Hence the Toni Iommi version has the strap thingy on one of the horns instead..

 

[kerplunk182]

which i heard can crack.

 

[ShredNoob]

They are rather sturdy, unless u do (God knows what) to your guitar..
otherwise leather strap.

 

[Godspeed64]

I use strap locks..

 

[AzNjT]

I feel ya GodSpeed~

But Anyways!! TO all ya'll outs there who wants to Buy a DOT ..

its pretty much like the SG... It neck dives but it doesnt Always Face Plant it self.. its Still VERY playable..


and Yes im using a Nylon Strap.. WHOOO!!!